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Free SaaS alternatives to market leading SaaS products.

AI and market forces will drive SaaS prices into a race for the bottom.

Buy or Build?​

The value of software is integration of trade secrets at the platform level.

  • What are the most valuable aspects of your business model?
  • How is value created and captured and how does that differ from your competitors?

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Purpose​

Analyse the features of the most valuable applications, then build a unified data model to build a monorepo platform for launching 1000s of business ideas from a common base. Pay as little as possible for operational software while maximizing platform and potential to gain extremely valuable proprietary data.

  1. Analyse market leaders
  2. Find open source projects
  3. Integrate and automate
  4. Connect a common data model
  5. Evolve a proprietary platform
  6. Capture the verticals

AI Business Team​

You can select an AI Software as a flexible workforce to jobs done.

  • Business Analyst (holistics / metabase / preset)
  • Community Manager (tribe.so / circle.so / mighty networks)
  • Copywriter (jenni.ai / copy.ai / anyword)
  • Customer Success (intercom / front / chatdesk)
  • Data Scientist (obviously.ai / h2o.ai / datarobot / bigml / rapidminer)
  • Email Marketer (beehiiv, substack, convertkit)
  • Faceless video producer (revid / pictory / vidyo.ai)
  • Financial Analyst (finta /runway / pulse)
  • Growth hacker (mutinyha / growthbook/ voyantis / phlanx / viral-loops)
  • Idea Machine (gummysearch / treendly / glimpse)
  • Lead magnet machine (gamma.io / mailerlite / systeme.io)
  • Legal Assistant (donotpay / lawdepot / wonder.legal / spellbook)
  • Market Researcher (exploding topics / trendhunter / sparktoro)
  • Marketing Strategist (semrush / ahrefs / moz)
  • Product manager (productboard / aha / airfocus)
  • Project Manager (clickup / notion / coda / linear)
  • Podcast producer (synthesia / riverside / descript)
  • Public Relations (prezly / onepitch / prowly)
  • Recruiter (dover / fetcher / gem)
  • Pitch Deck Creator (beautiful.ai / gamma / pitch.com)
  • Product Validator (validately / userfeed / prelaunchhero)
  • Programmer (cursor.ai / replit / claude 3.5)
  • Sales Team (apollo.io / outreach / gong)
  • SEO Specialist (surfer / clearscope / marketmuse)
  • Social Media Manager (zaap.ai)
  • UX Designer (v0 / playground / galileo ai)
  • UX Researcher (maze / hotjar / usertesting)
  • Video Producer (runway / descript / veed)
  • Startup Founder (stripe / producthunt / angellist)
  • Venture Capitalist (crunchbase / pitchbook / cb insights)

Categories​

Categories of products by jobs to be done.

Assisted Intelligence​

Use AI tools find answers and assist with content creation, brainstorming, and problem-solving.

Products: Perplexity, Chat GPT, Claude, Google

Crypto​

Data Analysis​

Create custom databases for project management systems

  • Airtable, Google Sheets, Excel

Project Management​

All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, and process management.

  • Notion, Trello

Scheduling​

Automate scheduling and appointment booking to maximize time and energy.

Email Marketing​

Automate email marketing campaigns.

  • Mailchimp

Graphic Design​

Generate images for marketing materials and product designs.

  • Midjourney, DALL-E, Adobe Generative Fill, Beautiful.ai, Gamma, Canva

Audio and Video​

AI-powered audio and video editing for content creation.

ERP Business Suite​

Accounting​

Compliance: Xero

Pre-Accounting & Expenses: Xero, Spark Receipt

Audio & Video​

Products: Descript, Screen.studio, Riverside, Synthesia, Opus Clips, MeetSteno

Business Intelligence​

Products: Tableau, Looker

Data Management​

Products:

Requirements:

  • Security
  • Integrity

Document Management​

Human Resources​

Roles: HR Manager

Required functions:

  • Training Management
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Employee Handbook
  • Employee Recognition:
  • Compliance Management
  • Document Management
  • Workflow Management
  • Task Management
  • Employee Profiles
  • Employee Onboarding

Email​

Products: superhuman.com

Graphic Design​

Products: Adobe Generative Fill, Beautiful.ai, Gamma, Canva

Knowledge Base​

Products: Notion AI, Process.st, querypal

Products: donotpay.com, Harvey.ai

Meetings & Scheduling​

  • Fathom, Fireflies, Rewatch, Otter.ai

Onchain analytics​

Process Mapping​

Project Management​

  • Goodday

Quality Management​

Spreadsheets​

  • Excel, Sheets, Airtable

Workflow Automation​

Automate workflows between different apps and services

Web Browser​

Writing​

Products: Grammarly, Hemingway, Superhuman, HoppyCoppy, Read.ai

Video Conferencing​

  • Zoom

Sales and Marketing​

Sales and marketing software is an area where AI can be used to automate and improve the efficiency of the sales and marketing process, while marketers can use web3 tools to create new ways to engage with customers with deeper levels of connection. Categories of jobs to be done by Sales and Marketing software include:

AdTech & Attribution​

Related to:

  • Onchain analytics

Affiliate Marketing​

Analytics and Tracking​

Branding​

Community Engagement​

Mighty Networks, Discord, Telegram, Get River

Content Planning & Creation​

Customer Relationship Management​

Customer Success​

Customer Onboarding:

Design and Visuals​

Direct Mail​

Ecommerce​

Email Marketing​

Enterprise Marketing​

jasper.ai

Landing Pages​

Lead Generation​

Live chat​

Games & Quests​

Loyalty and Rewards​

Marketing Strategy Development​

Sales Pipeline​

Search Engine Optimisation​

SMS marketing​

Social media​

Video Production​

Product Databases​

Curated lists of tools. See which apps are used to research, design, code, support, gather feedback and market the products you use.

AI Product Databases:

Onchain App Databases:

Awesome Github:

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